Sydel Silverman
In the last decade of the twentieth century, anthropology, like many other disciplines, was deeply affected by the revolution in genetic science. Both as a set of methodological tools and as an object of study in its own right, genetics assumed an increasingly important place in anthropological research and practice, presenting new opportunities and new challenges. At the same time, public discourse around genetics intensified, touching on long-held concerns of anthropologists yet the...
Alan H Goodman Deborah Heath and M Susan Lindee
University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England 2003 by the Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Genetic nature culture anthropology and science beyond the two-culture divide edited by Alan H. Goodman, Deborah Heath, and M. Susan Lindee. 7 p. cm. Papers presented at a Wenner-Gren Foundation international symposium, held June 11-19, 1999, in Teresopolis, Brazil. Includes...
part i natureculture
Section A. Human Populations Genetic Resources 1. Indigenous Peoples, Changing Social and Political Landscapes, and Human Genetics in Amazonia 2. Provenance and the Pedigree Victor McKusick's Fieldwork with the Old Order Amish 3. Flexible Eugenics Technologies of the Self in the Age of Genetics Karen-Sue Taussig, Rayna Rapp, and Deborah Heath 58 4. The Commodification of Virtual Reality The Icelandic Health Sector Database Section B. Animal Species Genetic Resources 5. Kinship, Genes, and...